upon returning for our second semester, we received the assignment to find a space, any space, sit (or walk or lay i guess) in it for awhile then write an "experiential narrative" about it. at the following gathering, we were then instructed to turn in our narratives which were then randomly distributed throughout the studio section. with these new narratives, we were then to begin analyzing the experiential qualities of the writing and translate the written into a new physical form. the narrative that was given to me depicted a pathway, which contained a long fountain on one side, and a series of trees on the opposing side. the narrative must have been written on a rather warm day because the description brought into detail the heat of the pathway in a sort of opposition to the trees and the fountain, describing the cooling shade of the trees and the rushing, flowing sound of the water. it became quite interesting to me that although the two opposing sides were physically quite different (water vs trees), they both in many ways created the same affect, cooling. in my exploration i began to create a series of models which reflected ways in which i could represent these in an abstracted physical form. one of the models i created was a series of vertically undulating ribbons that implied the idea of the sound of the fountain, or that of rushing water. i later discovered that turning this form on its side created a very intriguing form. in the final model, this series of strips was utilized to represent the fountain side through the physical formation of the sound of the water. in order to create the other side, the negative of the ribbons were "filled" and shifted over, utilizing a different form, to communicate a similar idea of this cooling effect, just as the shading of the trees opposed the fountain. the resultant was a very dynamic interior space of reciprocating undulations guiding the inhabitant along this central pathway.
